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Row by row, with the names

Every feature gets its own row, and next to it is who else has it. Including the places where they are ahead: those are at the bottom, but they are there.

Selling tickets

	MyBoxOffice	Who else has it
Unlimited events and tickets	✔	everyone
Online payments	✔	everyone
Booking with payment at the door	✔	almost everyone
Assigned seats with a room map	✔	Tickera · FooEvents · The Events Calendar, only on the $599 plan
Seating by table	✔	nobody
Close-up room mode	✔	nobody
Season passes	✔	Tickera
Membership card with automatic discount	✔	nobody
Ticket with a drink included in the price	✔	nobody
A minimum spend or compulsory-drink notice, with the buyer’s acknowledgement kept on the order	✔	nobody

At the door, on the night

	MyBoxOffice	Who else has it
QR check-in	✔	Tickera · Event Espresso · Eventin
Works offline and syncs afterwards	✔	Tickera
Several attendants scanning at once	✔	Tickera
You choose who is enabled, one by one	✔	nobody
Each attendant has their own till	✔	nobody
Selling at the door to people who didn’t book	✔	nobody
Multiple doors and zones	✔	nobody
Members get in without a ticket	✔	nobody
Box office with change calculation	✔	only FooEvents, and thinner
Night report you close after the show	✔	nobody

Bringing people back

	MyBoxOffice	Who else has it
Loyalty points	✔	nobody
Customer tiers with bonuses	✔	nobody
Tokens redeemable against tickets	✔	nobody
«Bring a friend»: reward for the referrer and discount for the guest	✔	nobody
Tailored discounts for a single customer	✔	nobody
Tracked complimentary tickets	✔	nobody

Running the venue

	MyBoxOffice	Who else has it
Venue accounting, costs included	✔	nobody
Bar takings counted separately	✔	nobody
Payment fees worked out automatically	✔	nobody
Artist fees	✔	nobody
Printable artist signature sheet	✔	nobody
Room hire to third parties, with contracts	✔	nobody
Staff shifts	✔	nobody
Labour cost per night	✔	nobody
Automatic database backup	✔	nobody

Filling the room

	MyBoxOffice	Who else has it
Newsletter with a block editor	✔	nobody
Email opens and clicks tracked	✔	nobody
Who actually bought after the email	✔	nobody
Dead addresses detected automatically	✔	nobody
AI-generated posters	✔	Eventin
AI-generated video	✔	nobody
AI-generated voice-over	✔	nobody
Automatic publishing to Facebook and Instagram	✔	nobody
Assisted replies to public comments	✔	nobody
Assisted replies to private messages	✔	nobody
Rule-based automations («last seats», «sold out», reminders)	✔	nobody
An app for your audience, under your own name	✔ (add-on)	nobody
Waiting list for sold-out shows	✔	Event Espresso · Events Manager
People on the list get the seat held for the first few hours: everyone else still sees «sold out»	✔	nobody
The alert also arrives as a phone notification	✔	nobody
How many tickets it would take, to decide whether a second night is worth it	✔	nobody

And here they are ahead of me

Five rows, said by me before you find them.

	Who is ahead	How much it matters
A more generous free version	Eventin	If the free tier is all you need, theirs gives more than mine: you can sell online without paying
Ready-made Gutenberg blocks	Eventin (20 blocks)	Matters if you build pages with the WordPress editor. Mine has shortcodes and Elementor support
Connections to other software (Zapier, webhooks, open API)	Events Manager	Matters if you already have a system to hook into
Custom questions per attendee	Event Espresso	Matters for conferences and courses, less for a show
Number of listing layouts	Modern Events Calendar (over 60)	Matters if you want to pick from many ready-made styles

If all you need is selling tickets, there are excellent tools and they cost less than me. If you need to run a venue, look at the five blocks above: there are 40 rows where, under «who else has it», it says nobody.

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